Detroit Sites

• Mt/ Elliott Makerspace | http://www.mtelliottmakerspace.com | 231 East Grand Blvd

  • Started and operated by Jeff Sturges
    • Makerspaces are youth and community focused, mission driven. Many call them DIY. They can build community, excite peer learning, and drive the entrepreneurial spirit of experimentation.
    • FabLabs: involve laser cutting, SD tools and objects, circuit making, SD printers (expensive tools to start up with)
    • HackerSpaces: Involve software and computer programmers. Redefining stereotype "hacker" to those that code for good, like Games4Change.

• Yusef Shakur (FATHER, ACTIVIST, ENTREPRENEUR, MENTOR, SPEAKER, AUTHOR, EDUCATOR, ORGANIZER)

  • Started Urban Network
  • Bookstore and Cafe
  • Author of "The Window 2 my Soul" & "My Soul Looks Back"
  • Producer of "Detroit's Native Son: From Z8ne Street Thug to Prison to Community Leader" documentary
  • http://www.yusefshakur.org
    • YusefBunchy Shakur Consulting, LLC
    • 
      Urban Network
      5740 Grand River
      Det, Mich, 48208
      313-459-6008

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